M.A.K. Halliday Award

MAK Halliday Prize for Outstanding Research in Applied Linguistics: This award recipient Dr Carly Steele (Curtin University) has now been announced. The prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (post-PhD) with the best peer-reviewed journal article or book chapter published in 2022 with a focus on “making linguistics applied”.

MAK Halliday, FAHA, who died on 15th April 2018, was a leading scholar, an inspirational figure in many fields of Linguistics, and a major influence on Applied Linguistics in Australia. Professor Halliday worked in multiple areas of linguistics, both theoretical and applied, and was especially concerned with applying the basic principles of language to the theory and practices of education. He is widely celebrated as the founder of the theory of language known as Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and is the author of several highly regarded articles and monographs on topics ranging from grammar and semantics, child language development and acquisition, the function of language in education, discourse analysis, the language of science, stylistics, and natural language processing. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Eligibility: ALAA members within 5 years of award of their PhD when they submit their application. The committee will also consider applications from scholars whose PhD were awarded more than 5 years ago, but whose career interruptions (or other mitigating circumstances) make them equivalent to within 5 years of PhD award.

NB applicants must have been ALAA members for at least 6 months at the time of submission.

All applications should be submitted online, and should include a pdf copy of the research paper as well as a supporting statement, as outlined on the MAK Halliday prize application form. For further information, please email Dr Paul Moore (Vice President, ALAA) p.moore5@uq.edu.au